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Monday, January 22, 2018

Greece to receive better repayment terms for bailout loans

Greece has neared a key milestone in its financial-crisis history, as its creditors started discussing better repayment terms for its bailout loans and a smooth withdrawal of the lifeline keeping the country afloat since 2010. Euro-area finance ministers ...


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GREEK Church Torn Over FYROM Rallies

Differences continue to emerge within the GREEK Orthodox Church over approaches to the 'Macedonia' issue, with Sunday's major rally in Thessaloniki exacerbating a rift among senior clergy. There also appears to be uncertainty over whether church authorities in Athens should endorse a large rally ...


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Researchers Uncover Ancient GREEK Island's Complex Plumbing System

They then imported hundreds of tons of gleaming white rock from the nearby island of Naxos, creating a bright outdoor shrine where early GREEKS performed rituals. Now, Maev Kennedy at The Guardian has highlighted the recent excavations at Dhaskalio, the settlement adjoining the island shows it was ...


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The Hellenic Heritage in America: Survival or Mission?

by John P. Anton* Keynote address, presented at the AFGLC Conference. Tampa, FL ** It is only fair to recognize the role of the Orthodox Church in the United States as well as that of the various Greek Organizations, professional societies and academic institutions that promote studies in Classical literature, Philosophy, Art and History. Special […] The post The Hellenic Heritage in America: Survival or Mission? appeared first on Hellenic News of America.


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GREECE expected to pass latest review of bailout program

Instrumental in the progress in GREECE'S latest regular review of its economic policies was the national parliament's approval last week of a batch of reforms. The measures include tougher conditions for unions to call strikes, speedier property foreclosures to help reduce the amount of bad loans on ...


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Euro Zone Holds Back New Loans to GREECE, Starts Work on Debt Relief

Such a growth-linked mechanism could help bridge the gap between some euro zone countries like Germany, which believe GREECE may not need any further debt relief, and the International Monetary Fund, which insists on substantial debt relief for Athens now, if it is to take part in the bailout.


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… between the Greek government and the institutions" representing Greece's … servicing, arrears and to boost Greece's cash reserves, said … eurozone officials have checked that Greece has carried out all the …


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FM Welcomes Initiation of Searching for the Remains of the Greek Soldiers Fallen in Albania

… cemetery of Greek soldiers in Vouliarati, Northern Epirus. near the Greek borders … souls of the Greek soldiers who fell in the Greek-Italian war of … the Greek fallen soldiers was discussed in the negotiations held in Crete …


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Greece gets green light for fresh bailout cash

Eurozone finance ministers approved another 6.7 billion euros in bailout cash for Greece on Monday after Athens pushed through controversial reforms that drew strikes and protests. The tranche is the latest from Greece's third financial rescue programme ...


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Greece gets green light for fresh bailout cash

Eurozone finance ministers approved another 6.7 billion euros in bailout cash for Greece on Monday after Athens pushed through controversial reforms that drew strikes and protests. The tranche is the latest from Greece's third financial rescue programme ...


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Fort Pierce's Original GREEK Festival on Feb. 9-11 benefits church, organizations it supports

The 39th annual Original GREEK Festival returns to St. Nicholas GREEK Orthodox Church in Fort Pierce on Feb. 9-11. The festival will open at 11 a.m. daily and feature live music, dancing, authentic GREEK food, imported GREEK wines, beer and other beverages. The organizing committee expects up to ...


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GREEK yacht booking platform sold to Spanish rival

Another GREEK startup has been sold to a foreign company, with the acquisition of 100 percent of Incrediblue, an online platform for renting private yachts, motor boats and sailboats, by Spanish rival Nautal, one of the biggest platforms in Europe. The price has not been made public but the transaction ...


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PMs to meet after 'Macedonia' name dispute rally in GREECE

Athens argues that the name Macedonia suggests that Skopje has territorial claims to GREECE'S historic northern region of the same name. Both countries returned to the United Nations last week hoping to reach a compromise that could end the 27-year dispute. On Sunday, tens of thousands of Greeks ...


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EU creditors to begin GREECE debt-relief talks

EU creditors will begin long-awaited talks on Greek debt relief as they prepare to sign off on one of the country's last remaining hurdles under its €86bn bailout. Mário Centeno, president of the eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers, said EU institutions will now explore how to link Greek debt relief to ...


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GREECE gets fresh cash on road to leaving bailout

Eurozone finance ministers approved a fresh cash injection for GREECE on Monday to put the country on the road to finally leaving its long and painful bailout programme later this year. The 6.7-billion-euro tranche is the latest from GREECE'S third financial rescue package since 2010, when its debt crisis ...


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EU Commission report suggests Greece may have to implement austerity measures a year earlier than 2020

A draft report prepared by the European Commission on Greece’s compliance with the bailout agreement requirements and the sustainability of the Greek debt, suggests that Greece would have to implement some austerity measures originally scheduled for 2020 a year earlier. This would happen if creditors see that the primary surplus target of 3.5% in 2019 … The post EU Commission report suggests Greece may have to implement austerity measures a year earlier than 2020 appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Eurogroup concludes Greece’s 3. review, approves €6.7bln bailout tranche

The Eurogroup gave the green light on Monday for the disbursement of the fourth tranche of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) program for Greece, totaling 6.7 billion euros, following a meeting of the Eurozone’s finance ministers in Brussels. The Eurogroup said the funding will be paid out in two tranches, the first of which (5.7 … The post Eurogroup concludes Greece’s 3. review, approves €6.7bln bailout tranche appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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GREEK PM feeling heat after FYROM name rally

Deputy Parliament Speaker Dimitris Kammenos, a lawmaker for nationalist junior coalition partner Independent GREEKS (ANEL) and one of several prominent party MPs who took part in the “grandiose” demonstration, urged Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to heed protester demands not to settle for a ...


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From Astana to Atlanta: New Greek Consul Brings Russian Expertise

When Emmanouil (Manolis) Androulakis found out he was headed to Atlanta, he set off on a feverish research binge. A portrait of the city slowly came into view: Atlanta was the home of Coca-Cola, CNN, the world’s busiest airport and many top ...


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Euro zone to disburse new loans to GREECE when all reforms are done-statement

BRUSSELS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers welcomed strong Greek progress in delivering reforms agreed with lenders, but agreed on Monday to wait with the next disbursement of loans for all of the agreed actions to be completed, they said in a statement. To pay out new loans, ...


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WindyCity Greek Founder & Editor to MC Pythagoras Children’s Academy Gala

PCA announces the selection of Maria A. Karamitsos, founder & editor of WindyCity Greek and a staunch advocate for Greek Orthodox Parochial Schools in America, as mistress of ceremonies for Pythagoras Children’s Academy’s Winter Wonderland Gala 2018. ELMHURST, ILL. — Pythagoras Children’s Academy (PCA), a preschool – 5th grade Greek Orthodox Parochial School at The Greek […] The post WindyCity Greek Founder & Editor to MC Pythagoras Children’s Academy Gala appeared first on Hellenic News of America.


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Menswear: 10 key collections from the autumn/winter 2018 shows in Paris

From the flame-lit open-air extravaganza at Hermès, to Vetements’ shopping stomp and Rick Owen’s techno-Greek myth, our menswear editor picks the best of Paris Continue reading...


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Man sentenced to 20 years for murder of 86-year-old GREECE man

The man who admitted to killing an elderly man in GREECE was sentenced Monday morning at the Hall of Justice. Omar Quarles will serve 20 years behind bars plus 5 years of post-release supervision after pleading guilty to manslaughter and robbery charges. Advertisement – Content Continues Below.


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Eurozone leaders hail GREECE´s emergence from financial crisis

GREECE is expected to pass the latest review of its bailout programme, putting it on track to emerge from its eight-year rescue this summer, key eurozone leaders have said. Top officials of the 19-nation eurozone said there was little doubt that GREECE would get the green light on its review at Monday's ...


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Becoming Stable Geniuses: Seeking New (and Very Old) Habits for a New Year

[(Photo: Brenkee)](Photo: Brenkee)   In these troubling and surreal times, honest journalism is more important than ever. Help us keep real news flowing: Make a donation to Truthout today. A little over a year ago at TomDispatch I wrote about the bloody nightmares rupturing my sleep and the night terrors gripping my little household in the wake of Donald Trump's election. That piece was reposted by a wide range of publications. And then, in what at first seemed like a terrible mistake, I read the comments. Some of them weren't very nice. Some of the names the guys (and they were all guys) called me were downright mean. Shocking, I know. But a common thread ran through those responses, one I've been musing about ever since. It was this, as one fellow put it: "There's nothing to be afraid of. Stop being such a coward." They were wrong, of course. There's plenty to be afraid of in the Trump era from climate disaster to nuclear war to disappearing medical care. But they were half-right, too. Those of us seeking to resist Trump can't afford cowardice. We need to practice courage. Remembering that exchange with those trolls has gotten me thinking about some of the personal qualities we'll need to sustain the movements resistingTrump and the Republican agenda forward. The ancient Greek philosophers called such qualities "virtues," by which they meant stable habits of character -- a dependable tendency to act a certain way in certain situations. The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed we can only develop such habits through practice. We become courageous, he wrote, by acting courageously. In effect, we fake it till we make it. There are many lists of such virtues. Aristotle himself described a number of them, some of which didn't even have names -- like the ability to be entertainingly witty at a dinner party. But most of the classical and medieval European philosophers settled on four key or "cardinal" virtues: justice, courage, temperance (which, today, we would call moderation), and wisdom. It's as good a list as any to cultivate for those intent on resisting the transformation of our world into a Trumpian hell on Earth. JUSTICE Ancient philosophers spent a lot of time defining justice. For the Greek philosopher Plato, a just person was someone in whom each part of the personality played the role it was best suited for. For Aristotle and many who came after him, justice consisted of giving to people what they were due or owed, what they deserved. We've certainly seen the Trump administration fail to give people their due. For example, in April 2017 Attorney General Jeff Sessions acted to stop the implementation of consent decrees worked out between the Obama-era Justice Department and a number of local police forces around the country. Those agreements to reform law enforcement practices came in the wake of a new media interest in an old problem: the deaths of striking numbers of unarmed people of color annually at the hands of police departments from Staten Island to Baltimore to San Francisco, not to mention Ferguson, Missouri, where Michael Brown was infamously shot to death by a city police officer. After Brown's death, the Justice Department investigated the practices of the Ferguson police and discovered that, far from giving that city's citizens their due, the police department and its municipal court were preying on them for financial gain. "Ferguson's law enforcement practices," the Department's Civil Rights Division found, "are shaped by the city's focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs." In other words, the main activity of the police and court turned out to be wringing as much money as possible out of the African American population. As a result of Justice Department action, in 2016 Ferguson agreed to a consent decree outlining the concrete steps it would take to correct an unjust system. Similar agreements were put in place in other cities with histories of discriminatory, indeed murderous, treatment of communities of color. Now, Trump's attorney general has halted enforcement of these consent decrees, effectively ending an attempt to bring justice to communities suffering at the hands of those who are supposed to protect them. Donald Trump himself has demonstrated little respect for the institutions responsible for justice in this country. In January 2018, for example, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a Trump move to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (the DACA program, which allows undocumented immigrants who came here as children to remain in the United States). Trump's reaction? An attack not only on this particular decision, but a tweetpronouncing the entire court system "broken and unfair" (followed by his now infamous assault on the "shithole" countries from which such immigrants come and a call to replace them with "Norwegian" immigrants). And this was hardly Trump's first attack on the courts. As early as June 2017, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School had already collected a remarkable range of presidential tweet assaults on the court system, part of a full-scale presidential campaign to delegitimize an entire branch of government (until the president can appoint judges more to his taste). It cited a tweet storm of Trumpian pronouncements like: "Our legal system is broken!" "Just can't believe a judge would put our country in such peril. If something happens blame him and court system." "What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban…?" What, indeed? A country with a system of checks and balances, perhaps, in which multiple branches of government work to keep each other honest, or even… just? In general, we tend to think of justice (or injustice) as a situation brought about by human activity, rather than as a quality of humanity itself. Consider the expression "to bring someone to justice." In this sense -- and it's a commonplace one -- justice is a metaphorical place, a condition. That's not wrong, of course, but we can also understand justice as a virtue -- a moral characteristic of individuals. Justice in this sense is the personal habit of giving people what they are truly owed, whether demanding respect for women's bodily and moral integrity or striving for a living wage for every worker. Justice in the form of habitual respect for those who are -- perhaps profoundly -- different from ourselves is crucial if we are to build strong and effective coalitions of resistance. COURAGE George W. Bush and his administration spent eight years trying to turn the United States into a terrified nation of cowards. The pretext for their invasions and torture was "our" safety (though on any number of other, far more dangerous subjects they couldn't have cared less). We've now come to accept, for example, the "security theater" we encounter at US airports, a drama in which an audience of docile passengers is reminded by the indignity of the procedures that we should be very afraid. Indeed the absurdity of these measures (only 3-ounce bottles in a quart-sized baggie permitted; no bigger! no smaller!) reinforces our sense of their ultimate power. The danger must be very great indeed, if our government is making such ridiculous demands in such profusion (even if the Transportation Security Administration has a dismal record when it comes to finding actual objects of danger on passengers as opposed to nail files or water bottles). Similarly, we were asked to accept that other people had to be tortured if we were to remain safe. It was as if the government were offering us a solemn deal: just let us do what we need to over there on the dark side and, in return, we promise you will never die. The same illusory guarantee of immortality is implied in the promise to wealthier, whiter communities that they could enjoy lives of perfect safety as long as they permitted militarized policing and massive incarceration in this country. In spite of an historic decline in violent crime in recent years, Donald Trump continues to stir such fears. In his inaugural address a year ago, he spoke of "American carnage," in a landscape "of abandoned factories, economic angst, rising crime." To deal with it, Muslims and immigrants of color were to be tossed out of the country (or kept from entering), prompting no less a fear-monger than George W. Bush to describe the address as "some weird shit." Such fear-mongering has a long history in this country. Today it is especially focused on the "dangers" represented by Muslims and immigrants in general. If you're a Central American immigrant, then you must also be a member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) 13 gang and in need of deportation so that good Americans can remain safe. Never mind that many such immigrants are here precisely because MS 13 and other drug gangs targeted them in their home countries -- or that MS 13 originated in the United States when Salvadorans fled war and repression instigated by US-backed dictatorships. We are encouraged to let fear guide our response to the horrors lived by millions of Middle Eastern refugees, many of them displaced from their homes by our own country's military adventures. Those adventures, in turn, were fueled by all sorts of ginned-up fears, including that -- as Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser, put it back in early 2003 -- we must not wait until the "smoking gun" (proving that Iraqi autocrat Saddam Hussein did indeed possess weapons of mass destruction) turned out to be "a mushroom cloud" rising over an American city. Half of all Syrians have by now become refugees, in part because of the regional destabilization that began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Trump travel ban forbids even one of them to enter this country. Since the attacks of 9/11, fear of terrorism -- and terrorism alone -- has constricted the American heart, while helping fund the spectacular rise of the national security state. To be clear: the problem isn't fear itself, it's our habitual reaction to fear. Reasonable people are often afraid. We are all mortal and there are real dangers in this world. Fear can be a perfectly useful response, alerting us to danger. So courage doesn't mean never being frightened. Courage is the habit that allows us, even as we tremble, to do what we know is right and necessary -- to refuse to torture anyone, to rescue refugees, to recognize that striking first is not self-defense but aggressive war, to realize that others are profiting by the ways we let fear immobilize us. If we are to successfully resist the Trump juggernaut, we will need to be brave, to create through practice a habit of refusing to let fear -- whether of ridicule or repression -- keep us from acting. MODERATION Moderation -- the ability to resist extreme behavior -- isn't always a popular virtue among leftists like myself. Our intemperance often tends less in the direction of self-indulgence than puritanical self-righteousness. This makes it difficult to compromise; it often makes "the perfect," as they say, the enemy of "the good." Such a tendency could prove disastrous if we fail to support imperfect Democratic nominees -- is there any other kind? -- in the 2018 midterm elections. There are legitimate bottom lines of course. A resistance movement worth its name can't support candidates who don't recognize the full humanity of people of color, of women, and members of LGBTcommunities. We mustn't trade anyone's humanity for a mess of electoral pottage. Still, there are compromises we can make. A puritan intemperance can also create in activists a contempt for anyone who takes time out from politics to pay attention to the details of ordinary life. Often such people are women on whom the main social responsibility still falls for raising children and feeding, clothing, and soothing family and friends. We can be tempted to forget that the whole point of political engagement is to create a world in which everyone is free to attend to the ordinary joys and pains of human life. There's a saying attributed to Carlos Fonseca, one of the founders of Nicaragua's Sandinista party. "A man who is tired," he is supposed to have said, "has the right to rest. But a man who rests does not have the right to be in the vanguard." It's a stirring exhortation. But the implication is that only supermen (and they would be men) can lead movements for the benefit of ordinary people. And buried in that implication lies a contempt for the very people any "vanguard" hopes to lead. Moderation -- a recognition and embrace of human limitations -- is the virtue that will keep a resistance movement humble and grounded in real life. WISDOM  Aristotle called it phronesis; Thomas Aquinas, prudentia. It's probably best translated as practical wisdom. It's the ability to use your mental powers, honed through your experience of life, to discern in a given situation not just the most effective move, but the right one. It's the quality that allows us, for example, to recognize the injustice in a tax bill that gives wealthy people something not due to them -- even greater wealth -- while taking yet morefrom the poor. Once armed with that recognition, practical wisdom helps us figure out the best way to confront and overturn injustice, while maintaining our own integrity. It helps us decide, for example, which candidates or ballot measures we should support or oppose in the 2018 elections. Once committed, practical wisdom helps us decide not only which tactics will be effective in an electoral battle, but which contribute to our longer-term goals. Suppose, for example, there's a ballot initiative to outlaw all state and local services to undocumented immigrants. No emergency health care, no public schooling. Opponents could decide to leverage the very anti-immigrant sentiment fueling the initiative to defeat it. "You don't want untreated immigrants spreading tuberculosis," they might argue (as in fact they did in a 1994 California electoral campaign). Or "You don't want dangerous immigrant teenagers hanging out on street corners. Wouldn't it be better to have them in school where we can keep an eye on them?" Arguments like this might deliver a short-term win (although they failed to do so in that state in 1994) but at the cost of reinforcing racism and xenophobia in the long run. Practical wisdom counsels us to do the right thing (in this case, oppose a vicious law) -- and in the right way. BECOMING STABLE GENIUSES Resisting Trump will require developing such dependable habits in ourselves and our movements. How do we do this? Here I defer to Aristotle. We become just by doing just acts and brave by acting bravely. We show up at immigration courts when asylum seekers ask to be released on bond from detention centers; we demonstrate outside legislators' offices, demanding they keep their promises to protect DACA holders; we keep doing these things even though we're afraid they won't help. We take risks -- including the risk of being ridiculed for making moral arguments, for injecting questions of right and wrong into the political conversation -- in a country where the "grownups" only talk about costs and benefits measured in dollars and cents. We fake it till we make it, all the while acknowledging our own human imperfections, even the possibility that we might be wrong. We build dependable habits of justice, courage, and moderation, guided by practical wisdom. We seek, in other words, to become very stable geniuses.


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On Why Ancient Greek Male Statues Not Very Well Endowed

NEW YORK – In case you’ve ever wondered about the ancient Greek statues and other artworks depicting the nude male form with the incredibly impressive […] The post On Why Ancient Greek Male Statues Not Very Well Endowed appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greek Orthodox Parishes in Iowa and Illinois Celebrate Epiphany

CHICAGO – This past weekend parishioners of St. George Greek Orthodox Church of Des Moines, IA, and St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in […] The post Greek Orthodox Parishes in Iowa and Illinois Celebrate Epiphany appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greek Pilots Survive Taliban Attack by Hiding in Their Rooms

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Survivors of the Taliban attack on Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel gave harrowing accounts on Monday of the 13-hour weekend standoff that claimed […] The post Greek Pilots Survive Taliban Attack by Hiding in Their Rooms appeared first on The National Herald.


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How to become the stereotypical Cypriot man

I want the reader not only to be entertained by the fictional process of turning themselves into a true Cypriot man, but also to be educated about the GREEK world.” To this end, the 16 chapters cover both amusement ('Be A playboy', 'Family, Religion, and the Mafia', and 'Ten Warnings About Cypriot ...


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Search begins for Greek WWII casualties in Albania

Greece's foreign ministry on Monday said excavation had begun in Albania in search of Greek soldiers killed fighting fascist Italy in World War II, one of the country's proudest military moments. "A historic moment, as the first disinterment of the remains ...


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GREECE and Spain see sovereign debt yields fall in wake of credit rating upgrades

Greek yields have fallen sharply in recent weeks on expectations that GREECE will exit its bailout programme this year and analysts said this was likely to remain the key driver of Greek debt. Sentiment towards peripheral bonds was also supported by hopes for a deal to create a coalition government in ...


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GREECE, Macedonia To Discuss Name Dispute At Davos

Leaders from GREECE and Macedonia say they will meet in Switzerland this week as they continue to seek a solution to a nearly three-decade-old name dispute. A Greek government spokesman said on January 22 that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet his Macedonian counterpart, Zoran Zaev, ...


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Legislation permits Greece’s casinos to provide loans of 50,000 euros

Where banks fail, casinos have the solutions. The Greek casinos. The Greek Casino Banks. They will give loans of at least 50,000 euros. Unbelievable? But true. The omnibus prior actions bill voted last Monday at the Parliament includes a clause that allows casinos to lend to esteemed customers as much as they want to. The … The post Legislation permits Greece’s casinos to provide loans of 50,000 euros appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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GREECE: Eurogroup To Review Bailout Progress

Finance ministers from the Eurogroup are expected to confirm Jan. 22 that GREECE has made significant progress in implementing reforms required for the country's bailout programs, but may choose not to disburse the next 6.7 billion euros of aid, Financial Times reported Jan. 21. If GREECE does not ...


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Movement on Macedonia Name Dispute – But in Which Direction?

The Greek and Macedonian premiers want a quick solution to the endless quarrel, but Greek nationalists are demanding a say.


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European stocks reach for fresh 2-year highs as Spanish, Greek shares climb

Employees walk past a logo of the Swiss banking giant UBS in Zurich. UBS said Monday it swung to a quarterly loss. Europeans stocks pushed higher Monday, with Spanish and Greek shares gaining in the wake of sovereign ratings upgrades, but decliners ...


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Greek, Macedonian PMs to meet after name row rally

Athens said Monday it will hold fresh talks with Skopje this week amid a renewed UN-backed push to solve a name row that has poisoned relations between the neighbours and sparked protests in Greece. Athens argues that the name Macedonia suggests that ...


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The leaps that shaped GREEK industry

Now, 160 years later, the Technopolis cultural center and the Industrial Gas Museum have put together an exhibition titled “160 Years Made in Greece,” on the GREEK industrial revolution. The show is an homage to the contribution of industries that excelled in the sectors of textiles, construction, lumber, ...


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Eurozone looks to final stages of Greek bailout

Key eurozone leaders say Greece is expected to pass the latest review of its bailout program, putting it on track to emerge from its eight-year rescue this summer. Top officials of the 19-nation eurozone said there was little doubt that Greece would get ...


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Greece, Bulgaria to Swap Tax Evasion Info

One of the major issues plaguing the Greek state for decades, tax evasion, was the subject of talks between the revenue heads of Greece and Bulgaria in Sofia on Monday, according to an Independent Balkan News Agency report. The Greek Independent Public ...


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Health Tourism 2018: Medicine Back At Home in GREECE

GREECE as a therapeutic or medical tourism destination is by no means a new idea. In fact, the origins of medical tourism can be traced back to the first Greeks and foreigners who travelled to the tiny Mediterranean town of Epidauria in the Saronic Gulf, and to the sanctuary of Asclepios, the god of healing ...


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Yorkshire will be warmer than GREECE this week as cold snap gives way to warmer temperatures

Yorkshire will be warmer than GREECE this week as cold snap gives way to warmer temperatures. After a week ... week ahead. Temperatures could even rise into double figures - potentially as high as 14C in some areas by Tuesday, beating the predicted 9C in Athens, GREECE, and 13C in Rome, Italy.


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No Confirmation that Greek was among Kabul attack Victims, Greece Says

ATHENS – The Greek foreign ministry has not confirmed reports that a Greek national was among the victims of the attack at the Intercontinental Hotel in […] The post No Confirmation that Greek was among Kabul attack Victims, Greece Says appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greek director Georgina Kakoudaki to hold workshop at Fajr

The workshop titled “Antigone, Right of Speech” will be organized at the Samandarian Hall of the University of Tehran. The ideas of Sophocles’ Antigone are scheduled to be discussed during the 7-hour program, which will start at 10 a.m. Kakoudaki ...


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Surplus Kiowa Warriors to bolster GREEK army fleet

Athens is advancing with the proposed acquisition following a 9 January approval from the GREEK government's council for foreign affairs and defence, which recommended that the programme be allocated €44 million ($54 million). This sum will cover the cost of training flight and technical personnel, ...


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Tsipras to meet with Zaev and Rama in Davos

Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras will be In Davos Switzerland on Tuesday 23 January to participate in the works of the World Economic ForumDuring his stay in the Swiss re


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UPDATE 1-Euro zone awaits expert view to clear new Greek loans

BRUSSELS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers will decide on Monday whether Greece is eligible for the next tranche of bailout loans after listening to an expert review of reforms recently adopted by Athens, top euro zone officials said.


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Vandals Attack Thessaloniki Holocaust Memorial

Outrage has followed the vandalism of a Holocaust memorial in GREECE'S second city of Thessaloniki. The words “Golden Dawn” — the name of a Greek far-right party — were daubed on the base of the sculpture which commemorates the 54,000 Jewish residents of the city who were deported by the ...


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GREECE might need to lower taxfree threshold sooner, report says

The report notes that "if necessary" GREECE will be obliged to adopt legislation, to be agreed on with its creditors, that will ensure fiscal targets are met. Whether additional measures will be taken in 2019 will be decided in May this year, according to the report. The report also underlined the importance of ...


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Greeks Rally For 'Macedonia'

Agency photographs show the scale and emotion of the January 21 protest in GREECE over the name "Macedonia." Feelings have been stirred by recent suggestions out of Athens and Skopje that a compromise might be at hand to the 26-year name dispute.


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